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Slave quarters at Horton Grove for the Stagville plantation, built by slaves and occupied until the 1870s. Slavery was legally practiced in the Province of North Carolina and the state of North Carolina until January 1, 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...
He became known as one of the largest slave owners in North Carolina and the wealthiest free black resident. Even though he himself was born a slave, Stanly had used his intelligence and family ties to become a successful entrepreneur, land developer, and plantation owner.
Paul C. Cameron (1808–1891) was an American judge, railroad builder, and a wealthy plantation and slaveholders in North Carolina. [1] When his father left him the business in the late 1800s, [1] Cameron oversaw the work of 470 slaves across 12,475 acres of land mostly in North Carolina.
Johnson, 68, traveled to North and South Carolina to research her maternal family history, discovering that Mills had owned Jerry and Myra, Johnson's great-great-grandparents, as slaves.
The slave residences are well preserved and are the only two-story slave quarters remaining in North Carolina. Significant archaeological finds around the quarters have given archaeologists and historians a glimpse into the lives of the many enslaved people who lived and worked at Stagville and throughout the Bennehan-Cameron holdings.
North Carolina's 11th district Mar. 3, 1841 Mar. 2, 1843 Joseph Pearson Caldwell: Whig: North Carolina's 2nd district Mar. 3, 1849 Mar. 2, 1853 Patrick Calhoun Caldwell: Democratic: South Carolina's 9th district Mar. 3, 1841 Mar. 2, 1843 William Parker Caldwell: Democratic: Tennessee's 9th district Mar. 4, 1875 Mar. 2, 1879 Joseph Calhoun ...
John H. Wheeler. John Hill Wheeler (1806–1882) was an American attorney, politician, historian, planter and slaveowner. He served as North Carolina State Treasurer (1843–1845), and as United States Minister to Nicaragua (1855–1856).